Frozen Blade

Ciel Posting for Deland. One of our all time favorite during year 2003...so much memories...

---The story behind---
This Character is Fu Chu, the king of Chu during approx. 200BC. The Chinese name of this piece 霜牙(frozen teeth) is the name of his favourite dagger.
It is said that during ancient time, one's favourite object will follow his master's character.

Chu had the largest territory, enviable amount of resources, lavishing lacquerware and various exotic races.
The Chus even once abandoned their king that was held at hostage by the Qings--that is the kind of character they behold.

Swords of Chu--Mysterious, romantic, yet fiery and fearless.

And so, being the king who rules these legendary people, what kind of breathtaking charisma should Fu Chu posses?

He is the son who never knew what is love or care. He fought, betrayed his kin and those around him, and then, he grew up in the fast moving repetitions.
He sat on the throne, stepping on the blood of those around him.

And then...
Nobody knows when did that happen, but the moment he lifted his head when the flowers are all blooming in his palace, his life had unavoidably changed.
The fated encounter with that person has finally doomed this proud creature of the sky to the ground.

Year after year he waited for the return of that person...
Till the day everything falls to dust, the circle is broken. Till the blood from the wound has become red powders lingering around the tip of his sword...like red threads.

Tie it to the little finger, like a promise of return..maybe next life.
Was that a smile hidden around the corner of his eyes? Nobody knows.

(It's so hard to translate Deland's Chinese writing...T T)
All Watercolor...